Mineral King - Farewall GapFGOC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.5 mi away/10,162 ft/1,449 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/California/Sawtooth Pass
Sawtooth Pass, California
Mountain pass in Tulare County, California, at 11,611 ft* AFFECTED AREA...Fire weather zone 592 Central Sierra.Fire weather zone 593 North Kings River.Fire weather zone 594 Sequoia Kings.Fire weather zone 595 Lake Isabella. * WIND...STRONG NORTHEAST WINDS EXPECTED. A 70 TO 90 PERCENT PROBABILITY OF GUSTS EXCEEDING 40 MPH ON THURSDAY. A 40 TO 60 PERCENT PROBABILITY OF GUSTS EXCEEDING 40 MPH ON FRIDAY. * HUMIDITY...MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITY BETWEEN 15-25 PERCENT BOTH DAYS. * THUNDERSTORMS...NO THUNDERSTORM THREAT. * HIGHEST THREAT...IS LOCATED FOR ELEVATIONS ABOVE 4,000 UP TO THE CREST OF THE SIERRA NEVADA. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED.
A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions are either occurring now, or will shortly. A combination of strong winds, low relative humidity, and warm temperatures can contribute to extreme fire behavior.
34°
58°/32°
Clear·
Feels like 26°·Gentle breeze 12 mph NE
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Sawtooth Pass until 10 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Sawtooth Pass is 34° and clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 26°. The dew point is 23°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northeast at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 58° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 2 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 8, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 57°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 36°. Rain is likely Tuesday (57%) and Wednesday (70%). Rain is possible Thursday (39%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:17 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:27 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 16 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
39Air quality
17%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
34feels26
12mph
Today
Oct 16
5832
18mph
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
5731
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
5531
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
5128
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
3923
57%
Wed
Oct 21
3620
70%
Thu
Oct 22
3818
39%
UV 6
34°
58°32°
57°31°
55°31°
51°28°
39°23°
36°20°
38°18°
As of 1:00 AM in Sawtooth Pass, California.
Air quality
The air at Sawtooth Pass
Index 39, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks (CA), 15 miles off.
39Good
- Ozone39Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 47, good.
GoodModerate
- 47YesterdayOct 15
- 46TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sawtooth Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Sawtooth Pass, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 11,611 ft
- County
- Tulare County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 36.4593° N
- Longitude
- 118.5617° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Sawtooth Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.8 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Alabama HillsS2237
At a soil climate station/24.7 mi away/5,230 ft/6,381 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Lone PineO26
At an airfield/29.8 mi away/3,688 ft/7,923 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW1241FW1241
In a volunteer observer's own ground/35.0 mi away/374 ft/11,237 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
US-395 - Sage FlatCF152
Beside a road/36.8 mi away/3,959 ft/7,652 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Three Rivers 16.3 ECA-TL-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/7,536 ft/4,075 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ash MountainASHC1
At a cooperative observer's station/14.8 mi away/1,650 ft/9,961 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in California
33 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Sawtooth Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Silver Citycommunity, 5 mi
- Sierra Nevadafeature, 17 mi
- Mount Whitneyfeature, 17 mi
- Three Riverscommunity, 19 mi
- Sequoia Crestcommunity, 19 mi
- Cedar Slopecommunity, 22 mi
- Camp Nelsoncommunity, 22 mi
- Pierpointcommunity, 23 mi
- Ponderosacommunity, 25 mi
- Hartlandcommunity, 26 mi
- Lemon Covecommunity, 27 mi
- Springvillecommunity, 27 mi
Mountain passes near Sawtooth Pass
- Glacier Passunder 1 mi
- Black Rock Pass2 mi
- Franklin Pass3 mi
- Shotgun Pass5 mi
- Coyote Pass10 mi
- Copper Mine Pass10 mi
- Triple Divide Pass10 mi
- Elizabeth Pass10 mi